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"I came home late one night in 1996 following some sort of function, walked in the door, picked up my Steinberger electric guitar, turned on the drum machine, and just started playing this song. As my hands assumed a relaxed position on the fretboard, I strummed the unusual riff and started singing the lilting melody. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to press 'record' or else it may have been lost to all eternity. The lyrics do a curious mirroring between the two verses, and the overall sound is somewhat reminiscent of 1980's Zru Vogue."
- ALJ, April 2002

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I encountered here a mystery on its way around the world
It was stopping for a visit with a small enchanted girl
I awakened and enlisted in that bright cerebral moment
In the work that will forever be unfinished

And I hailed it as a most unnatural
Perfectly sensual
Highly improbable moment
In which everything was as it should be
And isn't it always, actually

I imagined here a piece of something larger than myself
And that it wasn't all me after all
But then an angel came along and placed the lock inside the key
As if to say I'd had it all completely wrong

And I hailed it as a perfectly natural
Highly sensible mostly common moment
In which everything was as it shouldn't be
As always, naturally

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Words and music by Andrew Lawrence Jackson (copyright 1994)

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from Sanity Is A Thing Of The Past, released January 1, 1998

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Andrew Lawrence Jackson

Alternative singer-songwriter, recording artist, Zru Vogue co-founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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